{"id":80610,"date":"2026-07-10T14:13:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T14:13:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/80610\/"},"modified":"2026-07-10T14:13:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T14:13:08","slug":"unilever-ogilvy-singapore-reign-supreme-at-hashtag-asia-awards-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/80610\/","title":{"rendered":"Unilever, Ogilvy Singapore reign supreme at Hashtag Asia Awards 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Unilever emerged as the night&#8217;s biggest brand winner, taking home three Gold and four Silver trophies before clinching the coveted Overall Brand HashMaster title.<\/p>\n<p>The FMCG giant impressed judges with campaigns such as &#8220;Vaseline Verified&#8221;, &#8220;Vaseline Philippines &#8211; Auntie&#8217;s Lotion&#8221;&#13;<br \/>\nand &#8220;Vixal #PanggilanAlam&#8221;, developed alongside Ogilvy Singapore, Hepmil Philippines, Indonesia Creator Economy (ICE) and MullenLowe.<\/p>\n<p>The work picked up wins across seven categories, spanning &#8216;Best Social Media Partnerships: Influencers, Best Social Brand Launch \/ Relaunch, Best Real Time Response \/ Newsjacking&#8217;, &#8216;Best Use of Short-Form Video for a Campaign&#8217; and &#8216;Best Use of Tribal Marketing&#8217;, among others.<\/p>\n<p>Watsons followed closely behind with one Gold, five Silver and six Bronze trophies. Working with agencies including Ma&#8217;nifesto, YOYA Digital, Tilt, Accenture Malaysia, Shanghai Jinwei Culture Media\uff08\u5165\u672a\u4f20\u5a92\uff09and GOBOCreatives, the health and beauty retailer was recognised for campaigns such as &#8220;Watsons Customized Services Campaign: Face It Beautifully&#8221;, &#8220;Glam-Mas Gift Quest&#8221;, &#8220;Watsons Annual IP Matrix O+O Marketing&#8221; and &#8220;Watsons Club Biggest Members Rewards&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Rounding out the top three brands was Abaavo Group, whose campaign &#8220;The Hot Honey Rub Hacker&#8221; for Wingstop, created with The Ad Makers, earned four Gold trophies.<\/p>\n<p>On the agency front, Ogilvy Singapore claimed the Overall Agency HashMaster title after securing four Gold, two Silver and two Bronze trophies. Its winning streak was powered by a diverse portfolio of work, from &#8220;Vaseline Verified&#8221; for Vaseline and &#8220;Sprite Summer 2025&#8221; for Sprite, to &#8220;Coke Studio ASP 2025&#8221; for Coca-Cola, &#8220;Fall in Love with Chocolate Like Never Before&#8221; for Cadbury and &#8220;Europe: Through Local Lenses&#8221; for Changi Airport Group.<\/p>\n<p>Leo delivered another standout performance, collecting four Gold, one Silver and one Bronze trophy. Among its winning entries were &#8220;Hong Kong: The Most Fun per Square Kilometer&#8221; and &#8220;Tripment&#8221;&#13;<br \/>\nfor Cathay Pacific, created with Starcom Singapore, as well as &#8220;SC Invest &#8211; Time for What Truly Matters&#8221; for Standard Chartered Bank (Hong Kong), developed alongside dentsu Hong Kong, MSL and Accenture Song.<\/p>\n<p>Completing the agency podium was TBWA, which picked up three Gold and three Silver trophies for work with clients including Mandai Wildlife Group, Health Promotion Board, Spotify and Singapore Airlines.<\/p>\n<p>See who took home top honours by exploring the full list of Hashtag Asia Awards 2026 winners <a href=\"https:\/\/awards.marketing-interactive.com\/hashtagasia\/2026-winners\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The winners were selected by a distinguished panel of 17 senior marketers representing some of the region&#8217;s leading brands and organisations, including Allianz Insurance Singapore, dentsu Indonesia, LEGOLAND Malaysia Resort, Museum of Ice Cream, Razer, Shangri-La Singapore and Virgin Active.<\/p>\n<p>Held on 10 July at Sofitel Singapore City Centre, the Hashtag Asia Awards 2026 brought together Asia&#8217;s leading social media marketers, brands and agencies for an evening celebrating the region&#8217;s most creative and impactful work.<\/p>\n<p>MARKETING-INTERACTIVE extends its sincere thanks to the judging panel for their expertise and commitment to ensuring a fair, rigorous and transparent evaluation process. We also thank our official beer partners, Heineken Silver, Tiger Crystal and ODD Company, for helping make the celebration even more memorable.<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations once again to all the winners and finalists. We look forward to celebrating even more outstanding work next year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Unilever emerged as the night&#8217;s biggest brand winner, taking home three Gold and four Silver trophies before clinching&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":80611,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[20694],"tags":[35712,35718,35706,35707,35715,35709,35710,35708,35719,35716,35714,12213,35717,35711,35713],"class_list":["post-80610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-unilever","tag-abaavo-group","tag-cathay-pacific","tag-hashtag-asia-awards-2026","tag-hashtag-asia-awards-winners","tag-leo","tag-marketing-awards-asia","tag-ogilvy-singapore","tag-social-media-awards-asia","tag-standard-chartered-bank-hong","tag-tbwa","tag-the-ad-makers","tag-unilever","tag-vaseline-verified","tag-watsons","tag-wingstop"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@UnitedKingdom\/116896098027582354","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80610","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80610"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80610\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}